Yeah, the shields. Pretty much every time they announce the shields are less than 100%, the next shot shows a weapon hitting the ship, doing massive damage and killing people. The hell? I assume we're the believe that they'd reduced the damage somewhat, but it never feels that way.

This is also a future were remote cameras are apparently impossible. Remember that episode where they rigged up the sensor grid to Geordi's visor? They were blown away! Remote visual! Amazing!

So very clever
And yet never funny. I watched the first 8 episodes and while I certainly appreciated the effort and even some of the craft, I kept waiting to care about a bunch of self-absorbed, sort-of-rich mindless assholes. And more fatally, kept waiting to laugh. I laugh at a lot of things, but the fervent…

Hellcats?
Where's Ross Hagen?!?

Sometimes things happen for a reason
Watching Lost In La Mancha, the least-compelling part of the whole thing was the movie he was trying to make. The whole time-travel,toys-come-alive stuff just seemed not only tired but actually impenetrable. Like Gilliam has this image in his head of this "thing" that no other…

Think of an assassin after, say six months on the job. The initial thrill of pay-to-kill has likely passed, and if he has any real conscience at all left, it's probably making its last desperate plea. It's a career now, not just a lark or a "thing", but it's still kinda new and fresh and there's a lot more to learn.…

Well, if your dad really could've been anyone in town, that's at least half a village, in an electron-uncertainty kind of way.

Some of us are really pulling for Pilgrim to feed this summer's schadenfreude needs. And it's doing a bang-up job!

I always cheer for the aliens
Part of it is they have to make the humans morons (since making the aliens as smart as they should be is apparently too hard), but usually by the time they're mid-invasion they've destroyed all the cities and culture and interesting people anyway - let flyover country burn, I say.

If you want to know why movies cost so much to make, just stay for the credits. Even in "cheap" movies there're scores of names (much more for AAA titles), none of which worked for free. Whereas something like Primer could be done with 10 people who have day jobs.

What I thought was awesome about Dragon Tattoo (the movie anyway) was while is couldn't show the apple logo prominently enough, the main character has zero difficulty doing all kinds of only-in-movies hacking into them. MacBooks - for people who like shiny objects and eschew internet security!

Waaallt! Walt!
Hey, we still have Breaking Bad.

By 2100, you've see it and then say "Eh, I guess it was OK" and then never feel the need to mention it again.

She was hot, probably straight and played at least passable alternative music. Perfect masturbation fodder, and us mens, we loves that to death.

In Shaun, I never felt like any character ever earned my sympathy, so the nonstop obliviousness, whining and poor choices just felt pathetic rather than comic. And once you realized the zombies were just window-dressing and the only thing the movie cared about were his failed relationships with his mom and…

I saw the first Pokemon movie in an empty theatre, and it was actually a larger venue (on with two distinct sections broken up by a walkway through the middle).

Pink explosions, maybe.

My inner 13-year-old thinks this sounds like five kinds of awesome!
My adult self, however, just rolled my eyes at the entire summary. Was the cliche-o-matic on sale at Amazon recently? Maybe the artwork was really good, but this just sounds like 500 pounds of ass.

Sean of the Dead was awful; instead of a zombie-comedy we had a whining loser not-really-trying to deal with his mom's remarriage and his out-of-his-class girlfriend's realization of the obvious. With zombies, sort of. No actual comedy, but lots of navel-gazing. Now we seem to have the worst part's of Futurama's Fry…

So she still loves the office snitch?
I'd think there'd be at least two people she never wants to see again, right?